The Week in Tweets: PS3 Hacker Case Plays Out on Twitter

Sony Consumer Electronics of America's high-profile lawsuit against 21-year-old George Hotz, revered in the gaming community under his hacker name "Geohot," has turned him into something of a martyr for the First Amendment.

Sony Consumer Electronics of America's high-profile lawsuit against 21-year-old George Hotz, revered in the gaming community under his hacker name "Geohot," has turned him into something of a martyr for the First Amendment—at least according to many people on Twitter.

This week Hotz announced on his blog that he has raised enough money through donations to cover his legal expenses after being sued by Sony in January, when he published a jailbreak code for the Sony PlayStation 3. Read the background story here.

Sony has kept mum on the matter, but Hotz has used his blog and other media to characterize himself as an innocent consumer who had the right to jailbreak his own device. You can read his entire defense at Geohot.com.

Naturally, the Twitterverse weighed in. Click through the slideshow below for some of the most interesting tweets this week surrounding the proxy case of Sony v. Geohot.

Sara Yin is a junior analyst in the Software, Internet, and Networking group at PCmag.com, pouring most of her energy into app testing and security matters at Security Watch with Neil Rubenking. She lies awake at night pondering the state of mobile security (half-true).
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